Now that a new year has begun and it’s (still) the season to check what everyone thought of the previous one, there’s a sentiment I’ve seen across many year-in-review lists and videos: that 2018 felt really long, for ...

Spoilers ahead for the following games: Baiten Kaitos, Heavy Rain, Danganronpa V3 and Tales of Symphonia.
I’m thankful to this month’s Bloggers Wanted because it’s a great motive for me to talk about this game,...

Happy 2018, everybody!
In preparation for this blog, I decided to go back and read how my 2016 year in review went. As it turns out, I decided to get straight to the point! Good decision, if I do say so myself, but this time I’d ...

One of the basic selling points of practically any video game ever is giving the players the opportunity to do/be/experience something they probably wouldn’t be able to in their everyday life. They let you travel unknown lands, m...

One of my Youtube playlists features a bunch of random songs I pick up on the radio, movie OSTs, early morning teleshopping ads from the 90s, etc. Because of that, lately I’ve been realizing how much I feel attracted to songs abo...

All right everyone, while you’re all discussing the conference, and the pros and cons of the upcoming Switch console and its software, and what it means for the future of Nintendo, I think it’s time someone addresses the re...

Welcome to 2017!
In what may be the most echoed understatement of the year, 2016 was pretty crappy. Not for me personally, but if you enjoy practically anything culture-related, music and cinema in particular, chances are you experienc...

Getting achievements and trophies has never been one of my gaming goals. Not to say I don’t understand their appeal, seeing as they basically are a different representation of a 100% completion on your save file. I mean, some can...

One of the best things about the growth of games (and media in general) is seeing them, and the perception of them, expanding beyond a single audience and a single objective. Animated movies aren’t just for kids, reading text-onl...

My relationship with Pokémon happened by accident; my parents were going to a wedding, I was going with them and needed something to not be bored out of my mind. Pokémon Blue came to the rescue, and I was so glad it did. ...

Controversial statement: Childhood is something I believe should be treasured and celebrated. So, in honor of Children’s Day, I decided to share with you a story about a little boy and how his love for videogames and cartoons hel...

As some of you may have gathered from my lurking around, this is a topic I’m very…passionate about. A topic which stems from and is intrinsically connected to the evolution of the internet – from a tool with military...

Over the past 12 months, I’ve had the opportunity to be acquainted with some indie developers, a couple of which I even got to work with. It was a really great experience overall, which also contributed for me to have a better un...

Wow, Destructoid has already been around since 2006. I remember that year: I was still in high-school, beginning to get really invested in wrestling, torrenting shitty-looking videos with shitty internet, watching a lot of AVGN, the Wi...

Gaming has been a huge part of my life for more than 20 years now, and during that time I’ve seen many series and franchises come and go. Among them there are those I hold near and dear to my heart but there are also the cases where ...

I tend to play every game I acquire to completion. Some may take a while to get to, but unless it’s an abysmal piece of crap (*cough*yaibabecauseigotitforfreewithanothergame*cough*) I’ll usually finish it. Or Elder Scrolls IV, which I t...

If company-wise I’ll buy practically everything Grasshopper Manufacture puts out, in terms of game series Shin Megami Tensei fits that bill perfectly. I absolutely love it and many of its derivatives. That includes both Devil Survivor g...

(In case you missed the first part of this recap, where I wrote about 2015 in general and about my favorite games not released on that year, here you go). The so-called Year of Dreams wasn’t just made of incredible announcements; it als...

Now that 2016 has finally arrived, I’d like to take some time to reflect a bit on what a year 2015 was. Based on the decisions made the year before, this was the time to begin laying the foundations for my new direction in life. Part...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! As we get ready for the beginning of a new year and before sharing my recap of 2015, let me talk to you about a couple of games I played recently. I’m not sure if I’ve told you this alrea...

My first Bloggers Wanted and it’s actually one of the best themes I could start with. You know why? Because I love presents! Not necessarily the fact that I’m getting something or giving something in itself, but rather all the anticipat...

As I was getting ready to write my next So that just happened, Black Friday just so happened to hit the Steam Store. Since I was in between infinity+ hour games – just finished Persona Q and began DS2: Record Breaker – I decided to chec...

I’m not a fan of trying to define anything by a single word. It tends to be a fruitless effort that, more than an exercise in synthesizing, fails to consider most of the facets any one thing comprises and is comprised of in its relation w...

You know
what I love? Detective stories and Noir settings. You know what else? Impeccably
written visual novels. And what gets this all together in an outstanding
package? Hotel Dusk.
But it’s
not about that pearl of a game that I’ll ...

ust
apologize for yet another small lie on the title of this post…I didn’t *just*
play this game; I did it about 4-5 months ago. Well, some may consider it
viable to consider it wasn’t that long ago, but still.Anyway, the
reason I wan...

All right,
so, 4 months I wrote about my adventures in Barcelona…and then nothing. I’ve
been trying to get this sort of comeback post out for a while, but I’ve either
been too busy, too lazy or simply had other stuff I wanted to do. E...

For those of you who'd like to check the first part of this mini-series, here's the link. All right, so, where was I? Oh yeah, I was planning my strategy to approach Suda and Mikami. One of the ones that occurred to us was to sit next to Mi...

Some time ago, it came to my attention that there’s this little event called Gamelab, which has been going for quite some time as it seems. It’s basically a game dev meet, where industry veterans come to share their experience and knowl...

Another E3 has come and gone. I personally got groundbreaking returns, announcements and disappointments – and that’s how it goes. It’s a time for emotions to run rampant in this community of ours, and it’s exac...

About JPF720one of us since 3:45 PM on 04.08.2015

Hello there, I hail from the mythical land of Portugal and video games are a passion of mine. It all began when I played the original Super Mario Bros. at a friend's house, got rekindled when my uncle got me a Saturn with a Golf game (which I never played) and has now blossomed into a very critical, but also very loving, view of this medium.

As a Translator with a background in Psychology, I love to share and reflect on my personal experience with games, be it the narrative, the mechanics or how they are perfectly in sync (love those).